How to Create a Live Poll on Facebook Page

Social media had a huge impact on every aspect of life in 2016 including the US elections. Facebook rolled out Live streaming to all users that was previously only available to celebrities and also started ranking live content higher than other content. Live polls became the hottest trend on Facebook, and many big pages like 9gag started using it to engage more users. If you have been wondering how to create a live poll on a Facebook page then look no further, I will explain all the steps in detail so you can use this feature to boost engagement on your page.

Live Poll Example:

If you want to create such Facebook voting polls and have no coding experience, follow these simple steps, and you will be able to create a poll on your Facebook page.

Create a Live Poll on Facebook Page

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Step 1: Access Token

To access reactions count on your live video, we need an access token for your page. Click Get Access Token, a popup will open and you will see an access token field. This access token expires in one hour and that is not useful if we want to stream longer than one hour. So, we need to extend the token by creating an app. That will give us the ability to generate a token and extend it for two months. If you already have an app please skip these steps.

Steps to create an App:

If you have not already signed up as a Facebook developer, Click Register and complete the signup process.

Click blue info icon right before the token and click Open in Access Token Tool.

Click Extend Access Token.

Copy the generated token and paste in the website.

Watch this video tutorial for an example

Note: You can use the extended token for two months for all the live streams on a page. No need to generate the token every time you want to stream.

Step 2: Create Post

Click Get Post ID, Select your page and click Next.

Click Go Live.

Click settings icon on top right then click Embed.

Copy and paste the iframe code in Post ID field. The iframe code looks like this:<iframe src="https://web.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.facebook.com%2Fappdroid.review%2Fvideos%2F1437546469619737%2F&width=400" width="400" height="400" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" allowFullScreen="true"></iframe>Post ID will be extracted once you focus out of the input.

Note: Do not close the window. This is the live post that we will publish later.

Hi, The article is almost 6 months old and you can still see many big pages using this but don’t have any issues. Anyways that’s why I added comment polls which do not violate any terms of Facebook. I am also working on some game type live streams using comments so Facebook will not have any issues with that and you can still increase reach and engagement on your page.

Eloi Stree

Hi. Yes I directly changed my way to use the comment section instead until the Facebook condition is going to be adapted.
( PS: they may be do not punish, but I can’t sell a contract if the term and condition forbid it. 😉 )

You need to copy the URL from the address bar once you have created the poll and use that in BrowserSource. Please watch the video if anything is unclear. Thanks

sakismass

Hello. Thank you for your work. I have a question. I post my live poll to one of my pages and the counters work well. But When i share my live poll to my other pages, when people like the shared video the counters doesn’t work for them. Why does this happen.

Waqas Ibrahim

Hi, first of all remember that every shared post will show the same video and hence only number of reactions on original video. If you want to include reactions on shared posts then you can check the optional checkbox to include shared posts reactions. That is also tricky as it will only be able to access reactions from posts shared publicly.

Dave Smith

I donated but the auto-responder for comments to private message didn’t work. What should I do?

Waqas Ibrahim

Hello, did you get all the required permissions for the token?

Akash Kaiden Sharma

The message that need to be disappered after 15 sec is not getting disappeared in OBS…